Publications:

2008

• Qiaozhu Mei, Dengyong Zhou, Kenneth Church. Query Suggestion Using Hitting Time, Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08). To appear.
  
  
• Xu Ling, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Mining Multi-Faceted Overviews of Arbitrary Topics in a Text Collection, Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 08). To appear.
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. A General Optimization Framework for Smoothing Language Models on Graph Structures, Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '08). To appear. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 17%)
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '08), pages 816-824, 2008. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 25%)
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Deng Cai, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic Modeling with Network Regularization, Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 08), pages 101-100, 2008. [pdf] [slides]
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Kenneth Church. Entropy of Search Logs: How Hard is Search? With Personalization? With Backoff?, The First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'08 ), pages 45-54, 2008. [pdf] [slides] [video] (Acceptance = 16%)
  
  

2007

• Qiaozhu Mei, Dong Xin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai. Semantic Annotation of Frequent Patterns, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 1(3), 2007. [preprint]
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai. Automatic Labeling of Multinomial Topic Models, Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 07), pages 490-499. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 8%) Runner-up Best Student Paper Award
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai. A Study of Poisson Query Generation Model for Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '07), pages 319-326. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 17.5%)
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Mattew Wondra, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic Sentiment Mixture: Modeling Facets and Opinions in Weblogs, Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 07), pages 171-180. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 14.7%)
  
  
• Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz, Generating Semi-Structured Gene Summaries from Biomedical Literature, Information Processing and Management (IP & M) 43, pages 1777-1791.

2006

• Qiaozhu Mei, Dong Xin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai. Generating Semantic Annotations for Frequent Patterns with Context Analysis. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 337-346. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 11%) Runner-up Best Student Paper Award
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. A Mixture Model for Contextual Text Mining. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 649-655. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 23%)
  
  
• Dong Xin, Xuehua Shen, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han. Discovering Interesting Patterns Through User's Interactive Feedback. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 773-778. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 23%)
  
  
• Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Language Model Information Retrieval with Document Expansion. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2006, pages 407-414. [pdf] (Acceptance = 25%)
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Chao Liu, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. A Probabilistic Approach to Spatiotemporal Theme Pattern Mining on Weblogs. Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 06), pages 533-542. [pdf] [slides] (Acceptance = 11%)
  
  
• Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Automatically Generating Gene Summaries from Biomedical Literature. In Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006 (PSB'06), pages 40-51. [pdf ]
  
  

2005

• Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Discovering Evolutionary Theme Patterns from Text - An Exploration of Temporal Text Mining. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 05), pages 198-207. [pdf] [slides] [data] (Acceptance = 12%)
  
  
• Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Accurate Language Model Estimation with Document Expansion. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ( CIKM'05), pages 273-274.
  
  
• Bei Yu, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. English Usage Comparison between Native and non-Native English Speakers in Academic Writing. Proceedings of (ACH/ALLC 2005).
  
  
• Hang Su, Qiaozhu Mei. Template Extraction from Candidate Template Set Generation: A Structure and Content Approach. In Proceeding of the 43rd ACM Southeast Regional Conference (ACMSE' 05).
  
  

2004

• Qiaozhu Mei, Junfeng Hu. From Text to Exhibitions: A New Approach for E-Learning on Language and Literature based on Text Mining. In Proceeding of COLING 2004 Workshop "e-Learning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for e-Learning"
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei. A Knowledge Processing Oriented Life Cycle Study from a Digital Museum System. In Proceeding of the 42rd ACM Southeast Regional Conference (ACMSE' 04).
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei. A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Poetry Art: Its Design, Realization and Related Researches on Computational Linguistics. Book Chapter. "Literature and Information Science & Technology", p219-p262. Taiwan Tsinghua University Press, 2004. ISBN: 957-28986-8-x (a compressed version of Bachelor's Thesis, in Chinese)
  
  

Prior to 2004

• Qiaozhu Mei. A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Poetry Art: Its Design, Realization and Related Researches on Computational Linguistics. Bachelor's Thesis, Peking University, 2003. (in Chinese)
  
  
• Junfeng Hu, Qiaozhu Mei, Shiwen Yu. Computer Assisted Archaeology Research on Tang and Song Poetry. Conference Presentation, Literature and information Technology Workshop, City University of Hong Kong, 2003.
  
  
• Qiaozhu Mei, Junrong Shen. A Knowledge Flow Driven E-Learning Architecture Design: What is its Stratification and How is it Personalized. Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002), pages 1307-1308, 12.2002. (Poster Presentation)